The Curiosity+Heroin campaign is working to educate people about heroin and prescription painkiller abuse.

Heroin and prescription painkiller abuse has become a problem of epidemic proportions. Curiosity+Heroin is an educational campaign from NCADA – St. Louis that raises awareness of the effects and consequences of this real and present danger.

A growing number of obituaries of people who have died of heroin overdoses refer to their addiction, The New York Times reports. In the past, these obituaries tended to say a person died “unexpected...